Inspired by a long-term fascination with words, fonts, fairgrounds (and a touch of kitsch), Show Pony creates illuminated artworks & fairground-inspired signs, often embellished with gold and fitted with light bulbs. Alongside these are typographic prints, and painted cut-outs featuring icons of popular-culture. Self-identifying as a ‘word clown’, Tait graduated with a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art whilst suspended from the ceiling in a horse costume, under the title ‘Well Hung’. This playful use of words has carried through into her practice as Show Pony.
Exhibitions and projects include:
- Group show ‘Carnival of colour’. Arteria, Lancaster 2023.Group show. Hastings Contemporary, Hastings 2023. Group show ‘Women of Mass Distraction’. Stella Dore Gallery, St-Leonards-on-Sea 2022-23. Group show with The Babes in Arms. De La War Pavillion, Bexhill 2022. Dynamite Art Fair 2.0, London 2022. Artist feature, Bloom&Folk Magazine (print) 2020. ‘Hero-piece’, commissioned by Not On The Highstreet for Youtube 2019. Commission for James Martin’s Saturday Morning Show, by ITV 2018. Group show. Dynamite Gallery, Brighton 2018. Commission by Mighty Hoopla Festival, for Guilty Pleasures 2018. Artist feature, Caboodle Magazine (print) 2017. Collaboration in print ‘a bigger splash’, with Caboodle Magazine 2017. Artist feature, She Is Fierce Magazine (print) 2017. Group show. OXO Tower, London 2016. Solo show. STAN Gallery, Margate